Covid-19 Updates

Monday, July 20, 2020

Business Resiliency Letter from Vology’s CEO 

First and foremost, I hope you are well. I am writing today because the current business climate is forcing many IT leaders to put business resiliency planning front and center, and I wanted to reach out to let you know how Vology can help.

Cybersecurity threats such as malware attacks and typical network/data outages are pressing issues to deal with in ensuring uninterrupted business operations. The added pressure from recent events such as the hurricane season that is now upon us and the havoc wreaked on global businesses by the COVID-19 pandemic continue to add even more uncertainty. Unfortunately, these are only a sampling of the unexpected factors that can cause data loss and business disruptions. Therefore, the ability of an organization to adapt quickly while maintaining continuous business operations and safeguarding its people, assets and innovation is now more critical than ever.

As an IT leader, what guarantees do you have in place that give you confidence that your plan will work? How can you be sure that your infrastructure, data and applications will recover? What effect will a major business disruption have on your employees?

While many companies understand the need to have a sound data backup strategy, traditional approaches are unequipped to tackle the challenges faced by today’s evolving organizations.

Business resiliency planning helps to preserve the people, processes and procedures that businesses need to survive unexpected threats. As we all continue to operate in this environment of constant change, Vology can help you determine what your organization needs to protect value in complex IT environments. An Advanced Disaster Recovery (DR) plan, including Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), are critical elements needed to ensure uninterrupted business operations and safeguard valuable business data.

Why does this matter?

Because when you lose critical data, your business can suffer significant financial and productivity losses. Data loss can cause a damaged reputation, massive downtime, loss of clients, fines, government scrutiny and other intangible costs. Unfortunately, some companies never fully bounce back from this, with 60 percent of small and medium-sized businesses shuttering their operations within six months of a catastrophic event.

Safeguard Critical Data, People and Innovation

When creating an effective plan, it is important to consider the following: can your culture handle change? Are your workflows preserved/documented? Are your procedures for data loss and recovery in line with the current business environment?  

Implementing a solid business resiliency plan improves your chances of avoiding ruinous data loss and the related damages to your people, assets and innovation. Vology can help safeguard your organization against the most common causes of business disruptions: human error, hardware failures, database corruptions, hackers, natural disasters and other catastrophic events. Our proven solutions enable your business to work more efficiently and restore critical data and services when you need them most. Put simply, we get you up and running in no time, with no lasting damage to the overall health of your infrastructure and business.

Interested in learning more? Vology’s experts are here to help you create the most effective business resiliency plan, understand what pitfalls to avoid, and take the complexity out of the planning and execution. I invite you to:

• Get in touch for expert help.
• Join Vology’s Chief Innovation Officer Walt Walker on August 5^th for a webinar on Creating the Future of Work, including a lively discussion about why continued innovation is such a critical component of business resilience.
• Check out the “Ten Tips for Disaster Recovery in the Public Cloud Era” blog by Chief Innovation Officer, Walt Walker.
• If you want to realize substantial cost savings in the cloud, check out or new whitepaper, “The Cloud is a Not a Technology Initiative; It’s a Strategic Business Decision.” The cloud is a critical technology element in business resiliency planning as it helps to ensure uninterrupted online availability, increased productivity and more—with an elastic and highly scalable infrastructure.

Sincerely,

Tom York
Chief Executive Officer

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

COVID-19 Readiness 

The health and the safety of our customers, partners and employees is our number one priority. For that reason and effective immediately, we have mandated a work-from-home policy for our employees.

While working remotely, our team has the necessary equipment and connectivity, and we have been able to continue to provide reliable and consistent services for our customers. Because all our key sales, operations and services systems are cloud-based, you can rest assured that the support and performance of your infrastructure will not be impacted by this decision.

We will continue to monitor the situation and provide you updates on this page. As always, should you require any additional assistance or should you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with us via your sales representative or your customer success representative.

Thank you for your continued trust in Vology and stay safe.

Friday, March 13, 2020

Vology’s Commitment to Customers and Employees during the COVID-19 Crisis

The COVID-19 (coronavirus) has now severely impacted many communities across the globe and I wanted to take the time to personally update you on the measures we have adopted to ensure business continuity for all our customers and to guarantee the safety of all our employees.

In accordance with the guidance from the World Health Organization, Vology has reinforced its already strong Business Continuity Plan with specific steps to account for COVID-19.

Being a cloud-based company, you can be rest assured that the performance of our infrastructure will not be impacted as it was designed to handle business continuity needs through period of disruptions. In fact, our entire OPUS system, including our unified communication system, is 100% cloud based enabling virtually all our employees to work remotely on short notice. As the situation continues to develop, we will closely monitor any new developments and encourage our employees to leverage technology and conduct internal and external meetings virtually as much as possible. Vology will also encourage employees to work remotely for their safety.

The health and safety of our employees, customers, partners, and communities is a top priority for Vology. We are working around the clock to ensure that our customers can rely on their IT infrastructure to continue to move business forward.

Thank you for your continued trust in Vology. If you have any questions, we would be happy to discuss our plans with you in more detail.

Sincerely,

Barry Shevlin
Chief Executive Officer